This past July has seen artist Maja Maljevic hard at work at the David Krut Workshop. The teams flurry of printing activity is in preparation of her upcoming solo project in New York in October. Maljevic has been working with Master Printer Jillian Ross and the workshop team to produce a new series of mixed […]
Very Dangerous Grid finds its inspiration in the rotation of banal advertising adorning Joburg’s motorways, where the grid like infrastructure of the billboard, oscillates between being naked and bare and covered over. For Hobbs the bare skeleton is of more interest, a framing device for the clouds and sky, a site of projection, an […]
On Saturday the 22nd of September 2018, we hosted a ‘Make your own Maja’ children’s print workshop with Maja Maljević and the printers from our David Krut Workshop (DKW) at our Parkwood gallery. The open gallery turned into a studio for the day and provided a lively, engaging and welcoming space for the children to […]
Maljević has been making prints with the David Krut Workshop (DKW) since 2007. Over the years she has made etchings, monotypes, woodcuts and linocuts. In anticipation for her solo show Polytekton, 2018 at the David Krut Projects Gallery, Johannesburg, Maljević collaborated with Master Printer Jillian Ross and her team, at the David Krut Workshop, on a series […]
In the work Pop up Forest Hobbs drew inspiration from: a) The strategic use of makeshift “pop-up forests” in the First and Second World War. b) The pop-up book, Untitled, which was made for his solo show at DKP, Be Careful in the Working Radius (2013). Hobbs uses leaf shapes from the Newlands forest in Cape Town as […]
David Krut Projects is please to announce the completion of the fourth large scale Woodcut That which I do not remember in the ‘Triumphs and Laments Woodcuts’ series. In early 2016 William Kentridge was at work on a monumental frieze to be installed along the banks of Rome’s Tiber River in April of the same […]
David Krut Bookstore is pleased to feature the works of author and illustrator, Siya Masuku for the month of December until 27 January 2018. The feature showcases of linocut prints that originated from the digital illustrations in Masuku’s children’s book, Siyafunda isiZulu Siyafunda isiZulu is a visually inclined effort at broadening the representation of South […]
Master Printer Jillian Ross, at the David Krut Workshop, was interviewed on Classic FM Radio 102,7FM for their Classic Arts Feature. Ross answers questions about the different processes used at the Studio. Listen to the podcast here. […]
CARVED RELIEF PRINT GROUP EXHIBITION 5 February to 6 March 2015 | Opening at 18:00 on Thursday 5 February David Krut Projects 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood David Krut Projects Johannesburg (DKP) is pleased to announce Carved, a group exhibition of woodcut and linocut relief prints made in the David Krut Print Workshop (DKW) at […]
Senzo Shabangu and Sipho Dwala will be working at the David Krut Workshop, Parkwood this week. Shabangu will be mentoring South African artist, Sipho Dwala (1985) in linocut and monotype printmaking-processes. Dwala, who currently resides in Alexandra, studied Fine Arts at the University of Johannesburg (2009) and Digital Art at Wits University (2012). Under the […]
Senzo Shabangu recently completed the edition of his new linocut work Siyaya ePitoli. Yesterday the artist was at David Krut Print Workshop, Arts on Main, to sign the work. The editioned work exists in two variations – one edition where the linocut has been hand-painted by the artist to give each of the individual works a […]
Senzo Shabangu and Godfried Donkor have been working at David Krut Print Workshop, Parkwood, this week on linocuts and monotypes which will be collaged in Donkor’s characteristic style. Photographs below have been provided by studio assistant Tendai Mupita. […]
The work above is one of William Kentridge’s new linocut trees, titled Lekkerbreek. The image is constructed from individual dictionary pages that have a small section of the image printed on them by the David Krut Print Workshop printers and then pain-stakingly assembled like a puzzle with overlapping pages and small, torn additions into […]
As part of his residency in Johannesburg Godfried Donkor has been working at David Krut Print Workshop (DKW) at Arts on Main with printers Kim-Lee Loggenberg, Neo Hlasko and Chad Cordeiro. The images below from the studio show Donkor carving and proofing a linocut. […]
Senzo Shabangu has hit the ground running in 2014. Recently Shabangu worked with a young Belgian artist Quinten van Essche at David Krut Print Workshop, Parkwood, on the proofing of some new linocuts. Below are images from the session of the artists and work in progress. […]
Stephen Hobbs has begun preparations for his upcoming exhibition at David Krut Projects, Cape Town, in 2014. He will collaborating with printmaker Talya Lubinsky on a series of woodcut and linocuts. Below are images from the studio. […]
Senzo Shabangu was recently at David Krut Print Workshop, Arts on Main, to proof a large new linocut and to hand-paint the last works from the Endless Journey edition. Below are images from the workshop. These new works are preparation for Shabangu’s upcoming exhibition at David Krut Projects, due to open in August 2013, following […]
